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BColbourn 2,323 posts
does anyone know much about it? i can style it and amterial it and animate it but i cant seem to get it to cast shadows, any ideas? or is it just not supposed to?
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g3org3 355 posts
hmmm... can you convert it to geometry?
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Cameron 2,374 posts
If it's anything like shag hair (which i'm led to believe it is) there should be a certain shadow type that can cast hair shadows. You know how you have raytrace, shadow map, area shadows, mental ray shadow map, e.t.c.... well there should be a hair shadow type in there as well. If not, you can try the geometry approach.
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BColbourn 2,323 posts
i'll look into that cam, havent tried yet.
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Droidoz 1 posts
When I just use a simple setup (standard fur on a sphere) the fur casts shadows when I use a spot with raytraced shadows...
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olli96 30 posts
btw, the new hair system is the "Shave and a Haircut" plugin from Joe Alter
http://www.joealter.com/index.htm
Olli
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Bardur 78 posts
To get the light to cast shadows of the hair do this:
First you have to have hair and a light (works only on spotlights i think).
then you add the hair and fur modifire on the light..
then you go into the enviroment settings, and choose the effect rollout.
select the hair effect (wichshould be there) and then go down to the light rollout.
then select the light in the viewport and select add (or somthing) in the rollout..
I think thats how you do it...
and BTW.. i think it only works on spotlights.. wich is a bit *#?"#" because it would be MUCH betterif it worked with all kind of lights...
Regards
Bardur
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BColbourn 2,323 posts
yeah i got it working finally, thanks to your help bard
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Bardur 78 posts
no problem.. (i?m glad to help)
Regards
Bardur
